Outside the Beltway

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

Republicans hold narrow leads for Governor and Senator but . . . .

Fifty-plus “local” news outlets are a front for David Brock and company.

A new book raises fundamental questions about how far journalistic objectivity should extend.

The longtime Senate leader is gone at 82.

Discussing the filibuster.

Nevada is mounting a challenge to the rural, lily-white states that always go first in the presidential primary gauntlet.

Some square pegs are being forced into some round holes for the sake of inclusion.

When an apolitical process gets politicized.

The 87-year-old former San Francisco mayor isn’t woke enough.

Will he be a uniter or a divider?

Fear of a reprise of 2016 is still with us.

The writing is on the wall for simple-majority voting in the Senate.

The President is learning more about the Constitution every day.

A new poll indicates that at least some Democrats continue to hold Biden’s 2002 vote in favor of the Iraq War.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

Math rules.

The Merrick Garland precedent is power politics, nothing more.

Trumpism is a direct by-product of the poisonous populism of the Tea Party movement, and they’ve both taken over the Republican Party.

Initial polling on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court find the public more divided than they have been for other recent SCOTUS picks, but that’s unlikely to impact the fate of his nomination.

At least in these early days, Democrats appear to lack a coherent message, or a coherent strategy, to propel any effort to block Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

There are good arguments as to why progressive Senators should vote against his confirmation. Let’s stick to those.

Democrats are making largely meaningless appeals to the so-called ‘Merrick Garland Precedent” to argue for a delay in confirming the President’s next Supreme Court nominee. The American people feel differently.

Retiring Arizona Senator Jeff Flake says that he will not seek to block President Trump’s nominee to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.

The unconscionable violation of norms in 2016 won’t apply in 2018; it’s a matter of power, not principle.

After thirty years on the bench, during which he played a central role in some of the Supreme Court’s most significant rulings, Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring.

With the end of the Supreme Court term approaching, speculation about a Kennedy retirement is ramping up again.

The former Senate Majority Leader had surgery in Maryland after an apparently early diagnosis.

Once again, there’s speculation in Washington that Justice Anthony Kennedy could retire this year.

The Tea Party is dead, but it was never really alive to begin with.

The deal that led to the end of the Federal Government shutdown isn’t sitting well with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

The early numbers in the battle to control Congress look good for Democrats, but there are are a number of caveats to keep in mind.

The Senate appears ready to get rid of another procedural move designed to block judicial nominees.

After 200 days, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.

Senate Republicans have introduced their latest version of a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Justice Kennedy is telling prospective law clerks for the term that beings in October 2018 that he is considering retiring at the end of the term that begins this October.

As expected, Senate Republicans invoked the so-called ‘nuclear option’ to move the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch forward to a final vote on Friday.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch even as it became inevitable that Republicans would be forced to invoke the ‘nuclear option’ to confirm him to the Supreme Court.

Next week’s big news is likely to be the Senate’s vote to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, which could mean invocation of the so-called ‘nuclear option’ by Senate Republicans.

Let the games begin.

More fireworks on the second day of the questioning of Neil Gorsuch, but his confirmation nonetheless seems assured.

After a highly contentious nomination process, Jeff Sessions was confirmed last night as the new Attorney General of the United States.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

With a relatively smooth announcement, Donald Trump has named a solid and qualified conservative who will likely be confirmed to the nation’s highest court.

President Trump hinted today that he’s likely to name his Supreme Court choice next week, and the list to appears have narrowed to three men.

The new leader of the Senate’s Democrats says he regrets supporting the filibuster reforms his party passed in 2013.

Senior Republican Senators are throwing cold water on the idea of eliminating the filibuster.

In what seems like a replay of the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, some top Democratic Party leadership positions may be in jeopardy.

In a call to supporters, Hillary Clinton blames her loss on F.B.I. Director James Comey

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